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Overview
This is a practical guide to developing critical pathways for a multitude of settings - acute care, ambulatory, home care, rehabilitation, and long-term care. The book takes the reader from the very first steps of critical pathway design, through the ins-and-outs of implementation, and then assists the reader with evaluating patient and systems outcomes and improving practice. Concrete examples are given of how to adapt pathways to meet the needs of individual institutions and how to incorporate them into a continuous quality improvement process. Specific legal concerns are addressed in a chapter by attorneys who are also nurses; and an entire chapter is devoted to the computerization of pathways. This book doesn't simply provide critical pathways developed for other institutions, it shows how to create and tailor them. Students, educators, administrators, and clinicians will find this an essential resource for providing quality care, efficient case management, and a sound outcomes management program.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Jean O'Neil, EdD, RN, C(Boston College School of Nursing)Description: This guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating critical pathways meets the purpose stated in the title with excellent examples of pathways. Nurse authors describe development, initiation, and use of critical pathways in acute and ambulatory facilities, home care, long-term care, and rehabilitative settings as well as legal issues involved.
Purpose: The authors aim to assist healthcare providers to develop and benefit from critical pathways. The objectives are worthy and well met, but the use of the term "critical" several times presents problems, especially when involving patients in reading and cooperating with the pathways.
Audience: This book would aid any healthcare provider or student developing or using critical pathways.
Features: The authors present detailed examples of critical pathways in varied settings from acute to home care. They emphasize the development and initiation of critical pathways. They urge strong leadership of the team, preferably by a physician, multidisciplinary representation among the members, and setting up a specific pathway construction in preference to adopting models.
Assessment: The nurse authors of this timely guide define critical pathways as optimal schedules of key interventions done by all disciplines for a particular diagnosis (acute and ambulatory care), or procedure (ambulatory surgery) designed to achieve desired patient outcomes. However, the economic impetus of competition for HMO contracts emerges repeatedly. Outcomes indicating cost control, quality of care, and patient satisfaction derive from HMO criteria for contract awards. The authors discuss particular focal differences, such as medical diagnosis in acute care versus optimal function in home and long-term care. They show the benefits of computerization and weigh the legal benefits and potential liabilities of instituting critical pathways.
Jean O'Neil
This guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating critical pathways meets the purpose stated in the title with excellent examples of pathways. Nurse authors describe development, initiation, and use of critical pathways in acute and ambulatory facilities, home care, long-term care, and rehabilitative settings as well as legal issues involved. The authors aim to assist healthcare providers to develop and benefit from critical pathways. The objectives are worthy and well met, but the use of the term ""critical"" several times presents problems, especially when involving patients in reading and cooperating with the pathways. This book would aid any healthcare provider or student developing or using critical pathways. The authors present detailed examples of critical pathways in varied settings from acute to home care. They emphasize the development and initiation of critical pathways. They urge strong leadership of the team, preferably by a physician, multidisciplinary representation among the members, and setting up a specific pathway construction in preference to adopting models. The nurse authors of this timely guide define critical pathways as optimal schedules of key interventions done by all disciplines for a particular diagnosis (acute and ambulatory care), or procedure (ambulatory surgery) designed to achieve desired patient outcomes. However, the economic impetus of competition for HMO contracts emerges repeatedly. Outcomes indicating cost control, quality of care, and patient satisfaction derive from HMO criteria for contract awards. The authors discuss particular focal differences, such as medical diagnosis in acute care versus optimal function in home and long-termcare. They show the benefits of computerization and weigh the legal benefits and potential liabilities of instituting critical pathways.5 Stars! from Doody
Book Details
Published
June 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : Springer, c1997.
Pages
182
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780826197900